Opinion – Page 333
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CommentIf you think this is bad …
I read with interest your leader and article about quantity surveyors’ frustration with the RICS (7 May, page 3 and 9). I, too, have concerns about how it is run
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To the barricades!
Your article “RICS set for showdown with ’big eight’ QSs” (14 May, 2010), reinforces the opinion within the rank and file that the RICS is pursuing a number of policies that are to the detriment of ordinary members
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Carts and horses
Two cheers for Gerald Kaye’s column “We can’t go on like this” (14 May, page 34)
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The case for cutting VAT
Newly appointed Lib Dem ministers in the Cabinet need to honour their party’s manifesto commitment to cut VAT on repair and maintenance works
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People's prince
His intervention on the Chelsea Barracks scheme was a good deed well done by Prince Charles, as the high and mighty of the world of developers and architects are well able to use influence and money behind the scenes. The rest of us have to put up with the awful ...
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CommentPole dancers
Our thanks to Jon Prichard, director of resources at High-Point Rendel, for this shot of scaffolders at work across the street from his office. Jon writes: “This was taken this afternoon in Southwark. Please note that this photo has also been sent to the HSE as part of a complaint”
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CommentThe persuader: Isabel Dedring
As the GLA’s environment adviser, Isabel Dedring has to convince banks, businesses and more than 7 million Londoners of the need to cut carbon emissions 60% by 2025. She tells Emily Wright how she intends to make the case
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CommentLuke Wessely: Greek tragedies, British farces
Before we get too comfortable as armchair critics of rapacious footballers and financially illiterate European states, we should take a long, hard look at ourselves
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CommentWonders & blunders with Chris Ryan
Chris Ryan respects the endurance of Newcastle’s Victorian terraces, but reckons Foster + Partners’ Peterborough academy just can’t hack the pace of history
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Plant hire prices reveal continued downward pressure on construction supply firms
There’s little hope of a respite for suppliers from downward price pressure as the construction industry reshapes itself for lower levels of work
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CommentSix billion pounds of spending cuts - and many more to come
This is just of foretaste of cuts we face in the June Budget and autumn spending review
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CommentHansom: The great escape
Whether you’re off on a trip to Rio, a long-distance jaunt in a canoe, or sunning yourself in Barbados with Richard Steer, do let us know if you spot any of our 40 under 40 fugitives. They may be in disguise
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Public contract awards: Challenging times
Helen Bolton and Stuart Thompson New rules have paved the way for more challenges to public contract awards. So how do you protect yourself if you’re the preferred bidder?
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Jack Pringle: Before the knife goes in
The general election result has left construction at the mercy of a fragile political alliance, with cuts to public sector spending the only certainty. We have to fight our corner
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CommentBuilding buys a pint for... Alumet systems
“I’m thinking of going on holiday to Bangladesh,” remarks Dean as we get stuck into our first round of drinks
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Flipping ironic
Oh the irony, in the wake of the expenses scandal, of an MP commenting about consultants “creaming off cash” (14 May, ).
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Taken for Granted
I am concerned on behalf of the 400,000 homeless people in the UK, that the downgrading of this vital ministry from the Cabinet will result in little new action on behalf of the most vulnerable within our society (“Grant Shapps is housing minister”, 13 May, building.co.uk).